Published by Microsoft Press (February 26, 2022) © 2022
Bill JelenConquer Microsoft Excel—from the inside out!
Dive Into Microsoft Excel for Office 2021 and Microsoft 365 and really put your spreadsheet expertise to work. This supremely well-organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, tips, and workarounds—all you need to make the most of Excel's most powerful tools for analyzing data and making better decisions. Renowned Excel expert Bill Jelen offers a complete tour of Excel and its latest innovations, from advanced analysis and visualizations to dashboards. Discover how experts tackle today's key tasks—and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery.
- Save time with galleries, keyboard accelerators, and other shortcuts.
- Enter formulas more efficiently, and fully control operators and dates.
- Use new data types to return photos, arrays, or weather history— and even create your own.
- Master Excel's most widely-used functions.
- Integrate external data from the web and other sources.
- Use the new XLOOKUP function to retrieve data more efficiently, with fewer errors.
- Store powerful specialized logic in LAMBDA functions—and avoid their limitations.
- Easily transform complex datasets with Power Query.
- Quickly summarize millions of records with pivot tables.
- Perform ad hoc analyses and create advanced data mashups.
- Use Analyze Data's artificial intelligence to get answers and auto-generate pivot tables.
- Solve complex problems with What-If, Scenario Manager, Goal Seek, and Solver.
- Automate repetitive tasks by editing recorded VBA code.
- Demystify data with conditional formatting and other visualization techniques.
- Make the most of Excel's newest maps and charts.
- Add visual power with icons, 3D models, and animated 3D maps.
Part I The Excel interface
Chapter 1 What's new in Microsoft 365 Excel
Chapter 2 Using the Excel interface
Chapter 3 Customizing Excel
Chapter 4 Keyboard shortcuts
Part II Calculating with Excel
Chapter 5 Understanding formulas
Chapter 6 Controlling formulas
Chapter 7 Understanding functions
Chapter 8 Using everyday functions: math, date and time, and text functions
Chapter 9 Using powerful functions: logical, lookup, and database functions
Chapter 10 Using names, LET, LAMBDA, and Data Types in Excel
Chapter 11 Connecting worksheets and workbooks
Chapter 12 Dynamic array formulas and names in Excel
Part III Data analysis with Excel
Chapter 13 Transforming data with Power Query
Chapter 14 Summarizing data using subtotals or filter
Chapter 15 Using pivot tables to analyze data
Chapter 16 Using slicers and filtering a pivot table
Chapter 17 Mashing up data with Power Pivot
Chapter 18 Using What-If, Scenario Manager, Goal Seek, and Solver
Chapter 19 Automating repetitive functions using VBA macros
Chapter 20 More tips and tricks for Excel
Part IV Excel visuals
Chapter 21 Formatting worksheets
Chapter 22 Using data visualizations and conditional formatting
Chapter 23 Graphing data using Excel charts
Chapter 24 Using 3D Maps
Chapter 25 Using sparklines
Chapter 26 Formatting spreadsheets for presentation
Chapter 27 Printing
Chapter 28 Collaborating in Excel
Part V Appendixes
Appendix A Excel functions
Appendix B Excel functions with DAX or Power Query equivalents
Appendix C Adding functionality to Excel with add-ins
Index